Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Protecting, defending, and promoting the family, the Building Block of Society

SAFA

Matching Gift Extended—Help Us Reach Our Goal by Nov. 26th!

November 16, 2024

Dear SAFA Friend,

Great news! Thanks to an anonymous donor, our matching gift campaign has been extended—but we need your help to meet the challenge.

Every dollar you give will still be matched up to $20,000—but time is running out! With only 8 days left to donate, we’ve raised $5,620 so far, and we’re counting on your support to help us reach our goal.

Your gift will directly fund our legal fight to stop the City of San Antonio’s taxpayer-funded abortion travel plan, which would use your tax dollars to send women across state lines for abortions.

The deadline to double your impact is Tuesday, November 26th—so please act now before it’s too late!

Donate today and make your gift go twice as far.

Thank you for your unwavering support!

In solidarity,
Patrick Von Dohlen
San Antonio Family Association (SAFA)
Donate by clicking HERE or the button below!

P.S. Every dollar counts—and with the matching gift, your donation will go twice as far. Let’s finish strong!

Protect Our Future Veterans

Last Monday, November 11th, we celebrated Veteran’s Day. We’d like to thank all men and women who have served and laid their lives on the line to protect the freedoms of every American.

To continue protecting our country, these future veterans have to be given the freedom to be born. If we left the Mayor and City Council of San Antonio up to that decision, all pregnant mothers of future veteran babies would be trafficked to other states and their babies would be aborted.

We CANNOT allow our tax-payer dollars to support abortion trafficking.

SAFA’s lawsuit against the City of San Antonio will stop this from happening, but we cannot afford the legal fees on our own. We need your help. Consider saving a future veteran’s life by participating in our matching gift donation going on until Tuesday, November 26th.

Click Here to Donate to PROTECT Future Veterans

PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Update on SAFA v CoSA Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Travel

The SA City Council has not voted yet on the City Staff recommendation made on October 16 yet. We’re monitoring their meetings weekly.

If the Council ratifies the City Staff recommendations then they will still be violating state law using tax dollars to promote “emergency contraception” at a bare minimum. And, then two things tell us that Mayor Nirenberg & the Council will pull money out of the general fund to fund the abortion trafficking: his own verbatim comment and John “Chameleon Courage” who is running for mayor who sent out a public survey asking people how they feel about funding abortion travel thru the city’s General Fund.

Our case is on appeal to the 4th Court. It is supposed to be reviewed and decided upon without oral arguments but the 4th Court is way behind in its cases and it might even be waiting to see what CoSA Council decides to do on its pending decision on the “Reproductive Justice Fund.” Also, since 4 Republican Justices were just elected to the 4th Court of Appeals (through the help of TexasFamilyAction.com, a Friends of SAFA PAC), it’s the first time there’s been a Republican majority in decades. Therefore, if they postpone reviewing our appeal then we might have a conservative majority in place (as of January 20, 2025). That means we might win the appeal at the 4th Court and then again at the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) after the City appeals to the highest court in TX.

Because of our lawsuit, City Staff recommended that the $500k only go to “upstreaming” which includes SexEd, Contraception, and Emergency Contraception” to young women especially in SAISD AND NISD; and no money towards “down streaming” of “abortion travel.”

They didn’t say it was because of our lawsuit but it’s very evident.

Help keep SAFA going please with your prayers and support. SanAntonioFamilyAssociation.com/donate

PRESS RELEASE - OCTOBER 16, 2024

San Antonio Family Association’s Response to City of San Antonio Staffers Recommendation to Avoid Using the “Reproductive Justice Fund” Monies for Abortion Travel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For the first time, the Council has been surprised by a staff recommendation, and they don’t know what they’re going to do other than blow up the upcoming A Session vote. They aim to return to their primary purpose: reacting to the Dobbs’ Decision and assisting young pregnant women in leaving Texas to procure an elective abortion, thereby legally terminating their pregnancies. This raises the question of whether they will consider going along with Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s reluctant suggestion to support the staff recommendation for the 2024 Budget line item, while he promised to devise a backup plan to return to their original intent.

Councilman Jalen McKee Rodriguez of District 2 led the comments of disappointment, responding to the San Antonio Family Association sign that reads, “Equity begins in the womb.” He stated that this implies a woman has the right to choose to terminate her pregnancy. The focus, he suggested, is solely on her rights. Based on the reactions from what seems to be a majority of the Council, many members appear unhappy, surprised, and visibly frustrated by the City Staff’s prudent decision to avoid funding abortion navigation with taxpayer dollars.

Consequently, SAFA will continue its lawsuit to protect taxpayer money and indefatigably defend children and their mothers until the city staff recommendation is codified by the Council in the subsequent A Session or as long as necessary to halt this unethical funding of abortion travel and “emergency contraception,” a euphemism for chemical abortions. Chemical abortions harm everyone—from women to the environment—affecting sewer systems and potable water, not to mention the tragic loss of life and the destruction of evidence in potential criminal investigations.

We know that our lawsuit is a driving factor prompting the City to reconsider this 2024 budget line item. Unfortunately, it appears to be about money rather than the dignity of each human life, no matter how small.

Mike Knuffke of SAFA wishes to acknowledge the better judgment of City Staff despite contrary opinions from some Council members and Metro Health Medical Director C. Junda Woo. We also want to express gratitude for Councilman Marc Whyte’s dignified representation in attempting to change a potentially disastrous city policy that could cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

We are cautiously encouraged by the City Staff’s recommendation to avoid “downstream” abortion trafficking but dismayed by Council Members’ ongoing calls for unnatural and unhealthy remedies for issues stemming from promiscuity and fornication. This contradicts the natural course of procreation, as intended by God in creating humanity as male and female.

Responding to the progressive terminology and euphemisms used by pro-abortion Council Members and the Mayor, Mike Knuffke, President of the San Antonio Family Association, stated, “They call it downstreaming, which is dark and leads to death for the baby and deep, dark days for the mother in the years to come. Life is light, and if we truly care about women’s health and the perpetuation of humanity, it is imprudent to kill our babies and injure women. We should love them both, and as a first-world country, there’s no reason we can’t.”

For more information, contact:

San Antonio Family Association
210.928.7232 (SAFA)
Mike Knuffke: 210.844.0315
Patrick Von Dohlen: 210.601.7059

Help SAFA knock out CoSA to defend life now.
Give at SanAntonioFamilyAssociation.com/donate

We need UR help to raise $23k in next 6 days. Any amount helps & is appreciated! TY!

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Join Us For The First Ever Winter Dove Hunt

December 13, 2024

Attention, SAFA is hosting our very first WINTER DOVE HUNT. The hunt will take place East of Castroville, in Sesame Field, at 1:00 pm on December 13th, 2024. Lots of birds have been flying recently. $170/gun.

Priests, Seminarians, & Nuns can hunt free as guests of SAFA. Sponsorships are available to support a religious! 1 for $170, 5 for $800, 10 for $1500. Proceeds help create positive outdoor fraternal experience SAFA’s mission to protect, defend, & promote the family. 

RSVP by paying at SanAntonioFamilyAssociation.com/donate. Details to follow after paid registration. 

Questions? Text 210.928.7232 (SAFA)